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Issue: Strange Tales #99
Publication Date: August 1962
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Issues: #99 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/08/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In7
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Mister Morgan's Monster!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mister Morgan's Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Philip Morgan; Mrs. Morgan
Synopsis: Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #11 published October 1967
as Mister Morgan's Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #16 [unnamed variant] published April 1972
as Mister Morgan's Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #9 published May 1974
as Mister Morgan's Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #10 [unnamed variant] published June 1975
as Mister Morgan's Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Set after 2090.
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Music Master

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-804
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Day Before Doomsday!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Peterson; Premier Zorkon
Synopsis: A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #21 [25¢ Cover Price] published July 1976
as The Day before Doomsday! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
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The Man in the Glass Cage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Phelps; Anita Rogers; Bob
Synopsis: A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves. When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #10 published June 1975
as The Man in the Glass Cage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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A Switch in Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Karl Kargon
Synopsis: In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #12 published October 1975
as A Switch in Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]miscredited to Journey Into Mystery #99
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series).

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